The New President of Somalia, who is Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud?
Listen Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud was born in Jalalaqsi town of central Somalia in 1955. He attended his primary and secondary studies in Jalalaqsi. He graduated from Somali National University in 1981 and was employed in the Ministry of education as a teacher / trainer at Lafole Technical Secondary School where He taught students and trained [...]
Mr Abdirahman Abdishakur Announced his Candidacy of Somali Preisdent
Listen Mogdishu (Alshahid) – A Somali law maker and Former minister of Planning and International Corporation, Mr Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame has today announced his candidacy for presidential election of Somalia scheduled to be held August 2012. A well organised event attended by Clan Elders, Politicians, Members of Civil Society and Youth Activist, Mr Warsame who [...]
SHOC & SRDF Issues a Position paper about Istanbul gathering of Somali civil society
Listen Dear Representatives of the Somali People, We are writing to you regarding the second Istanbul conference on Somalia, taking place between 31st May and 1st June, under the theme “Preparing Somalia’s Future: Goals for 2015”. The Turkish Foreign Minister Davotoglu highlighted at the London Conference that there is a need for short term humanitarian assistance and [...]
Somalia: A road map into a new quagmire
Listen By Dr. Oduesp Eman Since September 6th when a two and a half a day long conference known as the High Level Consultative Meeting was concluded in Mogadishu, the name that has been dominating the Somali political discourse was the Road Map- the byproduct of said meeting. Or, the document endorsed by the participants [...]
Somalia – a future beyond famine
Listen Starving children stare at us from newspaper pages every day now in wide-eyed, mute appeal. Somalia is again in the grip of a humanitarian disaster, the world’s largest at this time. When we visited the region in the last weeks, we were both shocked by the suffering and impressed by the resilience of the [...]
Al Shabab’s American Connection
Listen A recent suicide bombing by a Somali-American from Minnesota comes on the heels of 18 Somalis charged with recruiting young Somali-American men for al-Shabab, Somalia’s brutal Islamist terror group. Both incidents underscore the growing threat posed by al-Shabab’s pipeline into America’s Somali community. According to al-Shabab leaders, 25-year-old Somali-American, Abdullahi Ahmed, detonated himself last [...]
With famine in Somalia, a case of leadership (not compassion) fatigue
Listen There’s a narrative that goes something like this: Emotive media images and tired tales of famine-causing drought in Somalia have created “compassion fatigue,” a type of onlooker’s paralysis that dulls the fury and utter indignation that would otherwise motivate action. That’s an insult, particularly with reference to the American public. Think such images don’t [...]
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon’s plea: We can’t allow Somalia to starve
Listen By Ban Ki-moon Across the Horn of Africa, people are starving. A catastrophic combination of conflict, high food prices and drought has left more than 11 million people in desperate need. The United Nations has been sounding the alert for months. We have resisted using the “F-word” — famine — but on Wednesday, we [...]
If you’re Somali, don’t bother to look for a job
Listen Somalis consistently rank as the least employed of any race in Victoria, with statistics placing between 32 per cent and 47 per cent out of work. Abdulkadir Shire and Ali-nur Duale are masters of disguise. The two Somali men, now in their 50s, have spent more than 30 years between them applying for jobs [...]
At last, the transition government in Somalia seems to have woken up
Listen While I am strongly opposed to murdering extremists that control much of the country and make no secret of their allegiance to the late Osama bin Laden’s Terror Inc., I never saw the feeble transitional government as a viable alternative. The members of the executive and the rump legislature operate only in a small [...]